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The Time Between the Seconds > Endwalker

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i think we should normalize making directors commentary posts about fics you write

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hi

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i have a thing for bloodied up blondes apparently

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best part of having a friend that is super into ffxiv is being able to complain like MAN THERE’S ASCIAN LORE IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BOOKS AND I CAN'T FIND SCREENSHOTS and he coincidentally happens to own them and sends them to me

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Have you ever obsessed over a piece of media, in an effort to escape from your current reality?

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i can be trusted around beautiful men with long hair

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Endwalker gave Zenos shippers everything, they were asking for. A new outfit, a dinner date and he was inside you by the end of the night and had you sprinting back to tell your friends about him. Literally took you to the moon and back and followed you to the ends of the earth.

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me to Zenos

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y'know. i like that Zenos died on his own terms. but also the fact that he gets the same resolution in endwalker that he does in stormblood kind of drives me insane. like in stormblood he gets to take his own life after achieving what he believed to be the greatest joy he could ever have.

but then in endwalker he gets so much more development, and while i absolutely love the fight with him at the end there, letting him die on his own just kind of validates what Alisaie said about him dying alone. which like if they wanted to show he was incapable of change because of being too far gone or whatever then fine, the community can fix it fanfic our way into giving him happiness, but he very clearly does react to Alisaie! he very clearly thinks about what she says, and his dialog before your fight with him really suggests that he's come away with at least a bit of a new perspective on the matter.

it just strikes me as odd to not just bring him back as a villain, but very explicitly someone who is neither hero nor villain, who at first works entirely selfishly for his own goals, but by the end he's helping you out and doesn't even make you fight him despite the being the reason he was selfishly going along with the whole plan to end the entire world in the first place!!!!!! and then after all of that, what has really meaningfully changed from stormblood?

Zenos is still dead, it being by your hands rather than his own i don't think really affects all that much. the wol probably got character development but i feel like it being for that sole reason is weird. Zenos learning, and even changing, just to be set right back to where he was before is just so weird to me.

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Forgot to post my costume: cybertruck driver

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i wish i knew what it was about seeing Emet Selch in that slutty little turtleneck that just Does it for me

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Zenos is the most romantic character in Final Fantasy XIV. Turning into a dragon so he can cross the expanse of the universe just to reach you, fixated solely on being by your side at the end of everything, desperate to finally achieve his fated dance amongst the stars with his cherished friend. Literally ripping apart the cosmos to get to you, disregarding any negative opinions you have on the matter because he's there purely for the satisfaction of it all.

No one is doing it like him. No one else can do it like him. I'm swooning.

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two pictures i took of my WoL when i was in hw vs two i took yesterday (post endwalker)

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every time i'm not directly focused on something i just want to bite down on Zenos' jugular. something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.